Foreign Postage to Be Reduced

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jun 18, 1914

Foreign Postage to Be Reduced

FOREIGN postage is to be made three cents instead of five at the triennial conference of the International Postal Union next September, according to a recent London announcement. A majority of the world's governments are in favor of three cents, though there is a strong movement, led by Sir Henniker Heaton, for universal penny (two-cent) postage, the rate which now prevails between the United States and Great Britain. The London Standard prophesies that the extra half penny will be dropped within a few years. The United States Senate has just ratified an agreement with practically all the nations of Europe for the purpose of closing the mails against obscene publications, particularly post cards.